| Show ten most outstanding young men of 1940 di sp la A i the perennial question ot of this younger generation corning coming to this month received a far more encouraging cou raging answer than usual brilliant I 1 leaders in many different fields of achievement were disclosed when felix B S tr e y akmans editor of FUTURE magazine selected the 10 most outstanding young men of 1940 sponsored by the U S junior chamber of commerce the magazine Is written tor for the young men of at the nation all of the men chosen were under 35 years of age following Is a brief review of their accomplishments ROBERT A BOYER borer 31 is head bead of the ford motor company research laboratory As a result of his experiments with plastics revo lutlo lutio nary changes in automobile production may soon be made he Is responsible for the development of the first practical structural material suitable tor for automobile bodies this material Is 50 per cent lighter than steel 50 per cent cheaper and 10 times stronger use of the plastic by the automotive industry would consume huge amounts of surplus agricultural products such as cotton wheat soybeans and corn LEO M CHERNE CHERNE 28 Is editor ln in chief and executive secretary of the research institute of america and author of M day and what it means to you although he is not on the federal payroll he endeavors to mesh the gears of business bubines Is and government so they run boget together ier smoothly and efficiently cherne offers a service to 19 subscribers which explains and interprets ter complicated government rulings he Is responsible lor for gathering and accurately interpreting information concerning the federal governments new laws and regulatory commissions so that business men will know how their operations are affected HENRY T HEALD 36 became first president of the illinois institute of technology last july when only 35 years of age to head the greatest engineering training college in the nation not only does it embrace the largest number of students but its research division is recognized as one of the three best the organization he heads was formed atom a merger of armour institute and lewis institute both successful educational institutions DR IRVING P KRICK 34 is associate professor of meteorology at the california institute of technology g y and founder of the krick industrial t r lal weather service the accuracy of his long range weather forecasts had been recognized nihed as unequalled unequal led anywhere in the world both the U S ormy army air corps and the royal air force have assigned officer personnel to study his methods krick began experimenting with a new method of weather prediction about eight years ago and kept improving his technique until in 1940 he was able to forecast successfully for periods of 90 days EDWIN H LAND 31 president of the polaroid corporation is inventor of a practical method of polarizing lar izing light his invention paves the way for a new and effective method of eliminating the glare of light basically the new polaroid film allows light rays to penetrate it in only one direction if the film were installed on the lenses and wind shields of every car vision at night ej A pictured above are the nations 10 outstanding young men of 1940 as selected by the editor of future magazine they are left to right top Iop row robert A boyer inventor leo M cherne legal adviser henry T heald engineer dr irving P krick meteorologist edwin H land inventor bottom row mark matthews leader of young men robert R nathan research economist oren root jr discoverer of Will willkie kle william author and playwright and lyle M spencer occupational pat ional research expert wo would aid be so glare gla free that drivers co could uld read each others front license plates in spite of the brightest headlights land developed this important invention from its very inception he had received patents on it when only 20 years old in 1932 beset he setup up a laboratory for general research in physics with the help of one of his harvard instructors polaroid light control soon resulted and light polarizing material I 1 Is now made for a long list of manufacturers rs MARK MATTHEWS 34 president of the united states junior chamber of commerce is the chosen leader of americas young m men en between the ages of 21 and 35 when he accepted the presidency of the organization last june he became the only man authorized to speak for americans of draft age although this office offers no financial remuneration of any kind he has been serving almost full time and has practically relinquished his law practice in new york city in 1937 mark matthews was appointed assistant corporation counsel of the city of new york in charge of the cites legislation only 31 years of age he was the youngest man ever selected for this important post in his bis present capacity he serves as the outstanding leader of americas young leaders in a thousand communities throughout the nation ROBERT R NATHAN 32 is chief of the division of economic research of the department of commerce and is now on leave from that position to survey defense requirements of both the united states and great britain tor for the national defense council in this capacity he probably holds the most important technical position in the nation this young research economist Is responsible tor foi ascertaining the military and non military requirements in terms of both finished products and raw materials and scheduling military needs by time intervals OREN ROOT JR 29 Is the discoverer of wendell willkie and the one man campaign who put him before the republican convention and win or lose willkie was un an important figure in 1940 root obtained several million signatures single handed by inserting small classified advertisements in newspapers throughout the country even before the nomination when dewey taft and were the only ones considered to have a chance root was organizing will kle clubs at the age ot of 28 and with only statewide state wide acquaintance in politics ho he undertook the campaign campal grifor for willkie everyone knows how successful he was WILLIAM 32 is the only playwright to win the pulitzer prize and the award of the drama critics circle both in the same year and to win t the he circle award unanimously he was given this recognition tor for his play the time of your affe in addition to winning both these coveted awards last year he had three plays running on broadway at the same time an outstanding distinction for any playwright although only 32 years of age he has a phenomenal ability to excel simultaneously as both a playwright and an author he has had 24 books published during the past nine years only six days before 1941 started LYLE M SPENCER 29 is a cofounder and director of science research associates in this capacity ht he has become the nations outstanding specialist in popularizing occupational pa pat ional information scientifically obtained with the aid of robert burns 31 he founded an organization in 1937 to offer young people reliable and understandable information on occupations pat ions he endeavored to obtain facts that would enable them to train themselves tor for expanding occupations rather than selecting their careers to fit their talents only to find their chosen field too overcrowded the organization they founded to fill this need was successfully established lab I 1 aishe d last year Ite released leased by western newspaper union |
